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Date:      17 Jan 2002 12:45:44 +0000
From:      Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>
To:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
Cc:        multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB sound or other external sound?
Message-ID:  <1011271544.37762.0.camel@lobster.originative.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20020116185743.G94816@lpt.ens.fr>
References:  <20020116185743.G94816@lpt.ens.fr>

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On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 17:57, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> The sound on my laptop is bust for some reason, and the Compaq people
> aren't willing to fix it until I put back "Compaq software" (windows)
> on the machine, and their system recovery CD didn't even come with
> windows on it (the windows installation files were on the hard drive)
> so it looks like I can't get it fixed without a lot of pain.

Tell them your disk has somehow got corrupted and windows doesn't seem
to boot anymore :-)

Seriously, they should provide a Windows disk if they sold you windows
so I'd get them to sort that out for you first.

Also, typically when laptops go back for repair I remove the hard drive,
since the data is proprietary, and if compaq support can't cope with
that scenario then ask to be passed on to customer services or somebody
and complain about the lack of service you're getting because what's on
the disk should have no bearing on having them repair sound.

Where did you buy the laptop from? If you bought it through a dealer
you'll probably get better support by going back to them because they
(should) have more access to the repair centre than an end consumer
would.

Paul.


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